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Oanadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year It seems evident now that attempt will be made to force France to take more active part on the side of the Nazis. The use of the remnints of the French navy is the most serious aspect of this question. It appears to be a foregone conclusion that little military effort can be made by France on behalf of the Nazis, no matter how the traitors may attempt to sellâ€"out the French people. To attempt to arm any material body of French soldâ€" iers to fight the British would seem to be too danâ€" gerous a proceeding.. If the Germans can secure the active use of the naval vessels under French control, the result will be an added burden on the British Navy. There is the comfort, however, that the British have been aware of all the posâ€" sibilities, and no doubt are fully prepared for all eventualities. Under Churchill everything apâ€" pears to be "under control." There seems to be full safety in trusting Churchill and his aides. Again, the words of the King apply:â€" "Put into your task, whatever it may be, all the courage â€"and purpose of which you are capable. Keep your hearts proud and your resolve unshakâ€" en. Let us go foward to that task as one man, a smile on our lips, and our heads held high, and with God‘s help we shall not fail." People who complained just a few days ago that the war appeared to have reached a staleâ€" mate and that there was nothing new in the news, but only the repeating of the bombing of London and the bombing of Berlin and other Germanâ€" held places, surely had a surfeit of war news this week. There was even variety in the news itself â€"â€"scme good, some bad, some not so good, some not so bad. Among the regrettable items was the story of the loss of HM.C.S. Margaree, one of Canada‘s new warships, sunk when rammed in a fog by an unnamed merchant ship. One hundred and forty officers and men were lost, there being only thirtyâ€"one survivors. Another ill item was the sinking of the great Canadian liner, the Empress of Britain, with 598 rescued by British warships out of the 643 persons on board. A lone Hun air raider dropped explosives and fire bombs on the liner after it had strayed in the fog from the proâ€" tection of convoying warships. Gunners on the liner fought the Hun air raider until the last. One of the popular stories of the Battle of Briâ€" tain is the one about the owner of a village inn somewhere in England. He stood before the door of his house of entertainment bearing the odd name of "The Swan and Garter," and watched the efforts of a German raider to deal out death and destruction. He shook his fist at the raider in the sky and said:â€""G‘wan, yer blighter! But if you think that even if you blow the blooming Swan and Garter into smithereens, Winston Churchill is going to burst into tears, you‘re making the worst mistake of yer dirty life." To many the story will not only suggest the sturdy spirit of the British people facing disaster with humorous defiance but it will also recall the many quaint names borne by houses of entertainment in the Old Land. In some of the books by Charles Dickens and other writers there are amusing references to the names borne by the British public houses. Some of them have hisâ€" toric or other significance, but many of them apâ€" pear to be no more than the expression of an odd form of British humour. When a local Englishâ€" man was asked to name some of the odd names borne by English houses of entertainment, he hesitated until another friend standing by exâ€" plained, "it‘s the bleeding pubs that is meant." Then came a long list from memory:â€"‘The Green Parrot,‘ ‘The Old Bay Tree,‘ ‘The Better ‘Ole,‘ ‘Peéeping Tom,‘ ‘The Four Feathers,‘ ‘The Bull and Bush,‘ ‘The Pig and Whistle,‘ ‘Dirty Dick‘s,‘ ‘Black Bess,‘ ‘The Elephant and Castle® London has many such names for hostelries and taverns. The countryside of England'. Scotland and Wales has still more. Any man from any part of the British Isles can recall, "with fond recollection." a score or more of unusual names for inns and taverns. TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group TWO PHONESâ€"26 and 2020 Published Every Monday and Thursday by (GEO,. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Whether the attempted invasion of Greece by the Italians is to be classed as good or bad news remains to be seen. News from this new battle front suggests that the Greeks are more than holding their own and that Britain is giving them material aid in the battle. It may be taken for granted, however, that the Italian move in the East will probably cause still further extension of the field of war. It seems probable that the attack on,Greece is a prelude to further moves in the Balkans by the Huns. At the time of writing it would appear that Turkey will soon be drawn into the conflict, while Russia can scarcely stay out of the contest. The question remains as to which side the Russians will take in the battle. The report of a police suggests that the same Timmins, Ont., Thursday Oct. 331st, 1940 PACJE POUR Ohe Aduvance THE WAR SPREADS ITSELE United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year court session at Sudbury odd humour is not altoâ€" gether wanting in this country. In that report there was reference to trouble that occurred at some of the roadhouses in the Sudbury area, and one of these places bore the odd name of ‘"The Red Umbrelia." Another seemed to go by the name of "Happy Sally‘s Place," and a third was content with the designation of "The Chicken‘s Roost."‘ In the history of the Porcupine, the most famous name for a place of entertainment was "The White Rat," a wellâ€"known place of call at South Porcupine in the early days. An incidental referenpe in a despatch from Toronto this week makes mention of the fact that the Ontario Department of Mines has recentâ€" ly been making special study of the clays of the North as well as of the lignite deposits. It is to be hoped that this active interest in the clay deposits of the North is not allowed to slacken. One of the special arguments urged by members of the Cochrane board of trade years ago for the building of a highway through the North was the claim that the area north of Cochrane was particularly rich in mineral wealth of many kinds. Lignite and clays were specifically mentioned. The Cochrane people had evidently given the matter very thorough study and investigation. late Arthur Stevens was one of the enthusiasts in this regard. He had been all over the world in his travels and he had a wide knowledge not only of mineral possibilities but of their vital relation to national economy and progress. He ventured the belief on many occasions that there were importâ€" ant deposits of valuable clays in the North. From the reports of prospectors and from his own inâ€" vestigations he was convinced that in the Smoky Falls area, for example, there were extensive areas of kaolin. Kaolin, or china clay, has many uses in addition to the fact that only from this clay can the best of white chinaware be made. Before the present war Great Britain and Czechoslovakia were the only two countries with material reâ€" sources of this valuable clay. Months ago, when the gangsters overâ€"run Czechoslovakia, The Adâ€" vance suggested the bringing here of experts from that country to give thorough investigation to the possibilities of the North Land in the matter of china clay. The opportunity seemed an ideal one. The Czechoslovakian experts, robbed in their own land, needed a new chance. They could have brought to this country an expert knowledge and experience that might have meant the development of a new industry of farâ€"reachâ€" One difference between the naming of public places in this country and in the older lands is that the tendency here is to be very dignified in the choice of names for hotels, restaurants and other strictly legal places of public entertainâ€" men. The fiights of fancy and humour are left to the places that are not so legal. Hotels and restaurants in this land would not consider the adoption of freak or humorous names like "The Polly Prim Arms," "The Dew Drop Inn," "The Staggerâ€"Inn," or "Soaky Joe‘s Cafe." Instead, the inclination is to the use of highâ€"sounding titles like "The King Edward," ‘"The Empire," ‘"‘The @Queen‘s," ‘"‘The Argyle‘" and so. The lighter, the brighter, the funnier, the quaint, are left to the houses that are not so careful to follow the exact demands of the law. There are striking excepâ€" tions to this rule, however. Timmins once had a highâ€"class restaurant named "The Pig and Whisâ€" tle." A weollâ€"known restaurant here in earlier days bore the romantic but appropriate name of ‘"The Golden Hub." In the main, however, it would appear that it is considered necessary to have a dignified name for any place or business that wishes to maintain decorum and respect. That appears Ooccasionally a matter for regret. It deprives the public of the quaint, odd and humâ€" orous titles that seem to abound in Old Britain. without aiiy loss of dignityâ€"or lessening of proâ€" fits. It is an interesting speculation to wonder whether on this side of the ccean an important house of public entertainment could go the lawful way to fame and success if it bore the unusual name of "The Three Sisters," or the sporting name of "The Crown and Anchor," rather than the highâ€"hat title of "Chateau Frontenac," or the prosaic designation of "Ford‘s." There are some returned soldiers who think the place is the thing and will win regard and affection for any name. They provecit by referring to their own name for their own Old Glue Pot." Well, anyâ€" way, that‘s the place to stick. ing importance. However, as this opportunity| land or in despatches these miraculous es seems to have been allowed to pass, it is sincerely| from what seemed certain death are noted. to be hoped that the Ontario authorities will carry| of these, however, appear more notable thal on. enquiry and study to see what may be done to| escape of one man from death in the Pore turn the problematical resources of the North in fire of 1911. The story, which has been tol the matter of clay deposits into promising indus-i fore, is reâ€"told in an article in the annual ; tries. In addition to kaolin deposits, there are! ber of The Northern Miner, by Col. J. Leckie., reported beds of fire clays and other commercial| man had been caught by the fire near the I clays. It ssems to be the duty of the Ontario| He did not fear death, but he had a horror c Dept. of Mines to do all possible to develop these.) ing burned and suffocated in theâ€" fury of At the least, private enterprise should be encourâ€"| To escape that fate he struck himse aged and assisted, if the gouernment is not preâ€"| the head with a piece of iron until he gaine pared to develop the fields as a public consciousness He fell in a green spot that project More than one private company has been| untouched by the fire. Others escaping fror formed to develop the clay prospects of the North.| fire found him and carried him to safety. At least one of them, the Missinaibi Clays and! made full recovery, and suffered no ill a Mining Limited, is still active. This company has§ from his experience. The moral, of course, i: tentatve plans for erecting buildings, on its claims;f where there‘s life there‘s hope. in Habel township north of Mattice and taking, * * ® out a quantity oi clays for sampling. There may, ‘"The Greeks had a word for it" And be ways in which the Government can assist in words. the furthering of these plans, and, if so, every legal aid should be extended. While gold mining Human nature is certainly an odd outfit % #% THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, T!IMMINS, ONTARIO The Spirit of England Burns Like a Flame (By J. V. McAree) T.‘ Not until some priceless memorial is defaced or destroyed do we.think of the vast antiquity of England.â€" Beâ€" cause England is vigorous and,growing we are prone to forget that England, too, is ancient. We think of,.agncient Europe and we think of imperial Rome and Greece. They had their greatness, their growth and their decay, But they are no more. So far as Greece is concerned, all except her sun is set. Rome has degenerated into her Mussoâ€" linis, a far cry from her Caesars, The desrendant of Pericles is our industrious shoeshine boy. Greece was declining when the Roman legions came to Briâ€" tain, so we think of the civilization of the Greeks as being far older. _ But they have long disappeared. Greece is no more significant than Rumania. Italy has no more of civilization to imâ€" part than the South Side of Chicago, They Had Their Day There is no country in the world that has remained as constant as England. When last did her boundaries change? When last was she influenced by an invader? William the _ Conqueror brought his soldiers, who became abâ€" sorbed in the conquered, and history has ennobled them for their merger, rather than for their victory. For a thousand years the English boundaries have been what always they have been, and we do not think a loyal Scot or Welshman will rise to a point of orâ€" der. Of no other nation, of no other race or tribe in the world can this be said. A hundred years ago there was no Italy or Germany as we know them now. France in that period has changâ€" ed and shrunk, and again feebly bloatâ€" ed. and again collapsed like a bladder and is, we think, now done for, despite the liberation that is coming at the end of the war. But France, we think, is like ancient Greece and Babylon. She has a promising past. We look rather to such a vigorous nation as Poland or Czechoâ€"Slovakia to carry the torch of culture which France has been too In If Winter Comes, by A.â€"S8. M.! direction of Hutchinson, which had a background'ject,s him. of the Great War, there is a moving | the plough passage about England which=â€"we quot?:| the coach si "This England is YOURS. â€"It belongs ‘That‘is ho to YOU. Many enemies have desired| Hawks hoc to take it because it is the most gloriâ€"| Bay Nugget ous and splendid country in the world. j But they have never taken it because j North Ba it is YOURS and has been kept for you.! West Coast This book is to tell you how it has come ‘ snatch solve to be yours and how it has been kept licity with . for youâ€"not by kings or by statesmen, | kidnapping. or by great men alone, but by the Engâ€"| barnacled S lish people. Down the long years they ‘ won‘t use t have handed it on to you, as a torch tially power lords, ‘This earth shall have a feehng Usually he leaves it to. his poets to say what he feels about these, things, althcugh when he sees his historiz2 shrines dissolving in dust and.I ubble he is probably capable of suitaple languâ€" age. His prose writers do. not, as a rule, let themselves loose on the subâ€" ject of England. Good taste perhaps, checks them. But now and then this for England bursts tmouglp even in the writings of such men as H. G. Wells. Left to the Poets Nobody doubts the passionate love that Frenchmen have had in the past for the soil which has so often been watered with their blood. But it is only in times of great stress, when his institutions seem threatened, that the Englishman realizes how inexpressibly dear to him is the very soil of England, of which Richard II said: _ "Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand . .. feeble to hold. She is destined to folâ€" low Italy into the shadows that long ago shut off Greece from a ‘marching world. It is not because France is too old. It is becauss France is neither gld nor young. will remain for many years as the chief industry of the North. the development of other branches of mining should receive all possible encourageâ€" ment in the national interests. + Most of the names of the places in the new scene of war will be Greek to most people. There have been accounts of all sorts of reâ€"| public i1 markable escapes from death in the present war.% themsel Hardly a day goes by but that in letters from Engâ€"| a people land or in despatches these miraculous escapes, if it tak from what seemed certain death are noted. None! British | of these, however, appear more notable than the| blows th escape of one man from death in the Poreupine is any C fire of 1911. The story, which has been told beâ€"| of Engl: fore, is reâ€"told in an article in the annual numâ€"| of less ber of The Northern Miner, by Col. J. Leckie. This, the dan man had been caught by the fire near the Dome.| would b He did not fear death, but he had a horror of beâ€"| mention ing burned and suffocated in theâ€" fury of the| membra fiames To escape that fate he struck himself on| was a C the head with a piece of iron until he gained unâ€"| Yet the consciousness He fell in a green spot that was| cheerful untouched by the fire. Others escaping from the| There w fire found him and carried him to safety. He| ness, of made full recovery, and suffered no ill afiectsiMore from his experience. : The moral, of course, is that! to help : where there‘s life there‘s hope. |the won Â¥ B ts P P AP L LCA â€"AL :A PP AL L P «stt lt GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER | Wmom’o"'-o"" «9t not my senseless conjuration For English Schoolboys tm P BPAAA ACAC OA LC C PAE %. ause; North Bay Nugget: Gâ€"men on the you.! West Coast, with the Deâ€" Tristan ome‘ snatch solved. credit newspaper pubâ€" kept: licity with having wrecked a "perfect nen,| kidnapping." It‘s only the old and ingâ€"| barnacled school of police theory that they " won‘t use the press as its most potenâ€" orch tially powerful ally. He just hops in his fivver and drives along the farm roads. Every time he ‘meets a young lad ploughing a field, % he asks him the way to Loting. If the ! lad, in replying, points his finger in the direction Oof the village, the coach reâ€" jects him.= If, however, he picks ‘up ‘the plough and points the way with it, the coach signs him up smartly. . . That‘s how they pick them for the ‘Hawks hockey tegtni, mebbe.â€"North is sent from hand to hand, and you in your turn will hand it on down the long years before you. They made the flame of England bright and even brighter for youâ€"and you, stepping into all that they have made for you, will make it bright and brighter yet. They passed and are gone; and you will pass and go. But England will continue. Your Engâ€" land. YOURS." This was intended as an introduction to a book for school reading, and a very good one indeed it is. Englishmen are wary of saying such things, but. they. feel them and are deeply moved by them. : In recent weeks perhaps, Englishmen have felt them more deeply than ever before in their long history Englishmen felt them. They express the very spirit of Engâ€" land. The English Paradox © may seem to foreigners odd that, with this love for their land and its sacred memorials, a land that their forefathers and they had made a garâ€" den, Englishmen should seem more willing and even eager to leave their country and live somewhere else than any other people on the face of the earth. Yet that is the explanation of their Empire. They have felt, perhaps subconsizicusly, that they were making some corner of a foreign field "forever England." They went back for visits, but it was rarely indeed that they did not return to their new home. Perâ€" haps to many of them it seemed that the spirit that made and kept England found freer vent inâ€"lands away from England; bigger, rawer, lands which could be made like home. In time of stress they have hurried back, just as they have hurried from the four cornâ€" ers of the world in the past year, as instinctively as birds go south at the end of summer. The power that draws them is the power that builds them and gives to the island they are defendâ€" ing her deep wells of strength. Down in the hill district west Of Powassan, they tell us, the coach of the rural rugby team has a smart idea for choosing men for his team. Liaison Officer Down Pow uch soldier invalid home to Sudbury from the battle front in Britain points out that the people in Canada are worrying more about the war than are the people in Britain. Speaking of the Britâ€" ish, he says:â€"*"They have taken hard knocks over there, and they know there are sure to be plenty more. but they aren‘t at all worried about the eventual outcome. The bombing raids have come far closer to demoralizing Canadians than the British people. . . The confidence of the general public in the army, the navy, the air force and in themselves is superbh. How are you going to beat a people who are prepared to beat Hitlerism, even if it takes 20 years?" The odd thing about the British human nature is that those who feel the blows the most are the least depressed. If there is any depression in Canada about the bombing of England it is not because the people here are of less robust minds. Had the people here to face the dangers and death now overseas, the roles would be reversed. The Porcupine fire of 1911 is mentioned incidentally on this page, and the reâ€" membrance of that event proves the point. That was a disaster and peril equal to any bombing. Yet the people in the Porcupine faced it with a cheerful courage that should live in history. There was no panic, but instead a spirit of kindâ€" ness, of thoughtfulness, of helpfulness for others. More than one man lost his life because he stayed to help someone else. And if the men were brave, the women were magnificent. And like the case of the bombings of London, the people elsewhere were more appalled, more horrified, more depressâ€" ed, than the cheerfuli survivors who proceeded at once to reâ€"build and reâ€"establish themselves and plan to see that it did not happen again. There was no panlit, DUul inslead a S ness, of thoughtfulness, of helpfuln More than one man lost his life beca to help someone else. And if the me the women were magnificent. And of the bombings of London, the peo were more appalled, more horrified, : ed. than the cheerful survivors who an Way Canadians Worry Too Much About Outcome in Europe Sudbury, Oct. 10 â€" Canadians are much too worried about the outcome of the conflict in Europe, in the opinion of Sapper Cieorge Armstrong, of the Royal Canadian Enginsers, who has lust returned to Canada on sick leave. Sapper Armstrong is well known in the Sudbury district, and throughout the length and breadth of the Northâ€" land. During the First Great War, he served with many Sudbury men in the old 159th Battalion. FPollowing the war, he prospected in almost every secâ€" tion of the North, and became a wellâ€" known figure in Northern centres. When war broke out in Senteéember. Britons Have Settled Down to Lick Hitler, Says Soldâ€" ier, "The people in Britain have figured out the odds on any one person in London being killed or injured in a bombing raid, and have found the odds to be ridiculously high in their favour. they don‘t worry about the Nazi bombâ€" ers any more." Britons Enthusiastic Not only are Britons unworried by Germany‘s bombers, but they are actuâ€" ally "enthusiastic‘ about the thought of a German invasion, Sapper Armâ€" strong told this writer. "Invasion? The British people are just praying that Hitler will try it. They don‘t say that it is impossible for him to succeed, according to military theory, because they know from bitter experiences that there are few things which are really imposible. They do sincerely wish that he will make the atâ€" tempt, however, because they know that they can give the Nazis the first hidâ€" ing that they have ever taken. confidence of the general pubâ€" INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE IN ALL BRANCHES PINE STREET NORTH TIMMINS Phones: Res SIMMS, HOOKER DREW To lose one‘s home by fire is tragic but not as bad as it could be if it wasn‘t protected by insurance. Protect your investment . . . See us about insurâ€" ance today. | ‘At last he said: "Is there any bf here whose father attends to horses i "Yes sir," said one small boy. "Then tell the class, Tommy, wh your father puts on horse eve morning," said the master. | "Half a dollar," was the prompt 1 .ply.â€"â€"MontreaI Star. lic in the army, the navy, the air force and in themselves is superb, How are you going to beat a people that is pres paring to beat Hitlerism, even if it takes 20 years?" Hive of Activity Armstrong described Britain as "hive of activity". Every Britisher is busy preparing for blows which may or may not fall, and is doing it cheerfully he asserted. Nowhere was there any talk about money, because money has become relatively unimportant to most people in the British Isles, he said. "Hitler can have his blitzkreig," he told this writer, *‘*The British people will win in spite of any temporary sucâ€" cesses that Hitler may achieve. If the war can be won in a few months, Briâ€" tain will be victorious, and if it takes another century, they will be just as ready for that. Hitler packs a hefty wallop, but he can‘t go the distance." A schoolmaster trying to discovetr what his class of small boys knew of common objects, asked what it was that a horse was made to weaur when it went about its work. The word "harâ€" ness" which he sought for, was not forthcoming. Sense and Nonsense: A leopard can change its spots, but they repaint used car to make it look like new. Slogging our way Who then is better To leap to the te When the bugle ca charge And the old line Sense and Nonsense:â€" have been suggested fo Heaven is the only im not many folks are nor home in heaven. (From Blairmore Enterprise) wWe, who are broken and battered QOut where the night is deep, Here, where our dreams are shatte Where have we time to weep! Where have we time for sighing, Born with the blood of men, When the bugle calls for the coun charge And the old line forms again? There are the heights still callin Must we in the depths now w And sob where our tears are falli Cursing the whims} of fate? 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